ASTRO Labs

The Applied Scientific and Technical Research Organization (ASTRO) was founded in Freedom City back in 1942 by Dr. Allan Grant. Through friends and contacts in the scientific community and the government, Grant secured the support and financing to start his own research company. It originally produced weapons and rocketry for the war effort, and their designs helped keep the Axis in check for much of the war. ASTRO quickly drew attention from the nation’s intellectual community, along with a number of lucrative contracts from the government and various corporations.
Now ASTRO Labs is the largest scientific research company in the world.

In Freedom City:

The company occupies its own office park in the North End, quite near the FCU campus and just across the river from the Hanover Institute of Technology. ASTRO Labs has established itself as a resource for the Freedom League, and the team often consults the company when they are in need of specialized equipment or assistance in analyzing a particularly difficult scientific problem.

In Emerald City:

The company’s Emerald City branch occupies its own office park, quite near the ECU campus. ASTRO Labs has established itself as a resource for the Freedom League and other superheroes, and the company is often consulted when heroes are in need of specialized equipment or assistance in analyzing a particularly difficult scientific problem.
The Emerald City branch, under the direction of Dr. Eric Vornoff, has made public overtures about assisting the area’s new costumed heroes in a similar fashion. Vornoff knows well from the experiences of the Freedom City lab such assistance is an incomparable opportunity to study extraterrestrial and other advanced technologies, as well as being a public relations boon. The fact that the city—if not the planet—often gets saved in the process is a nice bonus.

Type

Educational, Scientific Institute